#Slavery

Heard FC, aka Bluish Flower-Piercer

HeardFC

Remember that our national leaders have been saying for weeks that tens of thousands more people should die of coronavirus for the sake of retail stores. Remember also that black

Crystal M. Moten

cmmphd

Watching #SelfMadeNetflix as a historian who specializes in Black women in work/business/industry, specifically uncovering their struggles 4 economic justice I thought abt the texts/contexts that would have helped clarify the

David M. Perry

Lollardfish

I just think this is really important and I want people to see it. When people say feudalism to talk about the modern economy they are identifying a way in

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gemzgerms

I’ve been seeing discourse about biracial people and how they shouldn’t identify as black but as mixed/ biracial so imma create a thread of prominent biracial people throughout history you

Doug Jones

DougJones

Comparing these folks to Rosa Parks? Really? That’s simply nauseating. Rosa Parks was a true American hero (from Alabama) who quietly but profoundly protested over 200 years of oppression that

Amy Swearer

AmySwearer

Judge Barrett: I don't want to be Queen of the World.Senator Klobuchar: No, really, I often wish I was the benevolent Queen around here to get things done.We've just summed

Jonathan Burdick

JonathanBurdick

It’s John Brown’s birthday & he’s trending, so a reminder that he is very often misunderstood in popular historical memory. He was a deeply serious & committed abolitionist who was

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: October 4, 1978. Nine Ellis Prison inmates in east Texas went on strike against the unpaid labor they had to do every day, refusing to

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radicaltheory

“The key to understanding Amerika is to see that it was a chain of European settler colonies that expanded into a settler empire. To go back and understand the lives

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eniAiku

It is not becoming atheist¹ that makes you intelligent, it is intelligence that makes you an atheist.It takes a good level of deliberate obstinacy to look through the Bible and

Christi G

Hallo_Mea

A thread of links to articles I've saved over the past several years on alternatives to policing, in case anyone is interested. Feel free to add on. What Does It

w.e.b dem boyz

pacific_chiller

My mom and dad are darker so i don't present white or even "visibly mixed" but even 1 generation back my mom's grandparents have v light skin. And ironically, I'm

King Kay

audaciouskay

It has really bothered me today to see Jamaicans participate in all kinds of inflammatory conversation about descendants of people enslaved in the U.S. and what we encounter here. And

Ali A Olomi

aaolomi

While today religious leaders grumble about protests and #BlackLivesMatter , historically Black Muslim leaders were at the heart of uprisings against slaveryIn honor of Juneteenth, a quick thread on

Saifedean.com

saifedean

Dumb communist ideas like UBI are popular among the ultra rich as it allows them to build an army of poor dependent easily controllable slaves to legitimize taking more political

Professor Fleming

alwaystheself

My spiritual teacher is funny. I spent last night thinking and tweeting about voting. Then during my meditation time, I was led to a random page of a 1000 page